Reading Thomas Paine's COMMON SENSE declarations, imprecations, against the evil King of England as written in February 1776, I was very easily transposing the name, King George, for his former colony, the United States of America , and was deducing thereby a number of analogies from this logic in 2016.
For example, Paine writes:
"We may be as effectually enslaved by the want of laws in America, as by submitting to laws made for us in England. After matters are made up (as it is called) can there be any doubt, but the whole power of the crown will be exerted to keep this continent as low and as humble as possible? Instead of going forward , we shall go backwards, or be perpetually quarreling or ridiculously petitioning ,--We are already greater than the king wishes us to be, and will not he hereafter endeavor to make us less? To bring the matter to a point. Is the power who is jealous of our prosperity, a proper person to govern us? Whoever says 'No' to this question is an 'independent,' for independence means no more, than, whether we shall make our own laws, or, whether the king, the greatest enemy this continent hath, or can have, shall tell us 'there shall be no laws but such as I like.'"
P.30, (1955, 1984)
As I was reading Thomas Paine, I was also subliminally "substituting collaterals," a phrase from my legal days of amicable negotiations with automobile insurance company claims adjusters involving my client 's property damages, where they owed more on the car, than its FMV value to a lender! "Upside down!"
His passage above also brought to mind the ancient African "False Position Methods " of multiplication that I had recently read about in AFRICAN MATHEMATICS by Robin Walker and John Matthews (2014), dating back thousands of years to ancient Kemet and ancient Nubia.
Tuesday, June 14, 2016
THOMAS PAINE, EXCERPT..
Reading Thomas Paine's COMMON SENSE declarations, imprecations, against the evil King of England as written in February 1776, I was very easily transposing the name, King George, for his former colony, the United States of America , and was deducing thereby a number of analogies from this logic in 2016.
For example, Paine writes:
"We may be as effectually enslaved by the want of laws in America, as by submitting to laws made for us in England. After matters are made up (as it is called) can there be any doubt, but the whole power of the crown will be exerted to keep this continent as low and as humble as possible? Instead of going forward , we shall go backwards, or be perpetually quarreling or ridiculously petitioning ,--We are already greater than the king wishes us to be, and will not he hereafter endeavor to make us less? To bring the matter to a point. Is the power who is jealous of our prosperity, a proper person to govern us? Whoever says 'No' to this question is an 'independent,' for independence means no more, than, whether we shall make our own laws, or, whether the king, the greatest enemy this continent hath, or can have, shall tell us 'there shall be no laws but such as I like.'"
P.30, (1955, 1984)
As I was reading Thomas Paine, I was also subliminally "substituting collaterals," a phrase from my legal days of amicable negotiations with automobile insurance company claims adjusters involving my client 's property damages, where they owed more on the car, than its FMV value to a lender! "Upside down!"
His passage above also brought to mind the ancient African "False Position Methods " of multiplication that I had recently read about in AFRICAN MATHEMATICS by Robin Walker and John Matthews (2014), dating back thousands of years to ancient Kemet and ancient Nubia.